Before my Ph.D., I thought that ph.D. was breaking through the boundaries of human knowledge and creating new brilliance in the field of research I was engaged in; after reading my Ph.D., I felt more and more that most Ph.D. students did not actually understand the outline of this boundary, but more of a circle within the boundary.
Before my PhD, I was ambitious and pretentious, thinking that I would definitely go further; after my PhD, I realized more and more that I was just an ordinary person, and I could only make some insignificant innovation within my limited ability.
After reading the PhD, I deeply realized: the ideal is very full, the reality is very bone; the ideal is a balloon, and reality is a shot put ball. If I want to say that the painful understanding of reading a doctorate, I think the ideal is often like a beautiful dragonfly, but the reality is likely to be like an ugly cockroach, reading a ph.D. is the same as life, false is true and false, true and false is also true, true and false, false and true This is the reality.
Today, I will talk to my doctoral friends around me about the painful understanding during the doctoral study: first, for everyone to have fun, life is nothing more than you laugh at me and I laugh at you; the second is the lessons of the past, I hope that everyone will take it as a warning.
@May Be Yanbi's sister
Everyone who chooses to study for a doctoral degree initially has a scientific research ideal, but the scientific research and this system have too many factors that we "can't control", making the process of realizing the ideal of scientific research particularly difficult. Realizing the ideal of scientific research is such an uncontrollable thing, from selecting a mentor, setting the direction, doing the project to writing articles, reviewing manuscripts, and finding jobs, there are many uncertainties in each link.
Just as you can never predict exactly when a scientific problem will be solved, you can't predict when you'll graduate, whether your experiments will meet expectations, or even whether a topic will be rushed... The old student sister who may want to yanbi wants to say: the thesis thesis thesis is coming to the bowl soon.
@ There is a good baby who can't say anything in my heart
I think time is "squeezed out". Before the Ph.D., the longed-for doctoral research life was to wear experimental clothes every day, do experiments in the laboratory like a model, sort out the data at night, and then logically publish SCI.....
After my PhD, I realized that I was really Young Too Naive. It turns out that in addition to studying and scientific research, there are so many accounts, document collation, PPT, errands to do, almost no time to study, most of the time is in the service of tutors. Send you 500 research assistant fees, and I hope to let you do 500,000 jobs.
Doing all the chores during the day, the tutor also asks you from time to time about the progress of scientific research, if not, and asks Diss to say what they have been doing recently, why have nothing been made? I:??? What have I done that you don't count in your mind? The baby's heart is bitter, but the baby does not dare to say.
@ Dr. Liu, who pretends to be high
To study for a phD, you must also learn to "opportunistically". The rich will grab wealth in crises, and the schoolmen will grab ideas in crises. "Look, XXX applied for a project with COVID19", and you may scoff at this speculation, like despising the capitalists who "sucked blood" during the financial crisis. However, paper, like money, is "really fragrant". What I once scoffed at was what I couldn't ask for now.
@ Full of people do not know hungry men hungry Versailles
Academic utilitarianism kills "dogs". Although I have published 6 SCI articles now, I feel that I am too eager to make quick gains in my studies, and I feel that I have not learned much knowledge, although I have now been admitted to a certain unit, but I feel that I am not very happy (hey, is it a bit Versailles). Now I feel that academics should not be too utilitarian, which is really a painful understanding for me, and I hope that academic future generations will take it as a warning.
@ Xu Xuejie who suddenly realized
Write articles as early as possible to complete scientific research indicators. If people who are not interested in scientific research and have weak willpower have read a doctorate, they must write articles as soon as possible in order to graduate. As long as there is data, start writing, don't be afraid to write badly, only after writing can you feel what you lack. Everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as the paper begins, it is not far from being written. As long as it is written, it requires the teacher to quickly modify it, and now many teachers are busy, so they must take the initiative to urge the teacher to help change the article. If the article is written and voted out early, as long as the editor agrees to send it for review, it means that the paper has the potential to be published in the eyes of the editor.
If you wait until the teacher comes to urge the article, it means that the progress of doctoral reading and scientific research has been slower than the teacher expected, which is a very dangerous sign. Doctoral scumbags, if you want to graduate, you must start writing articles early, don't think about saving a big article and delay the progress of writing a thesis. I am the precedent of those who are not in a hurry in the early days and die in the later stages.
@Died very tragic Miss Zhang
No one can offend a teacher. Maintaining a healthy and positive relationship with a mentor ensures graduation on time. You treat the mentor sincerely the mentor treats you sincerely, and everything is always mutual. Don't let the tutor let you work and you refuse, don't let the tutor urge you to write a thesis and resist, don't ask the tutor to ask you to do experiments and you cope. Mentors are an important network in your academic path and future career development, whether it is academic research or graduation job search, tutors can help you. So take a long-term view, don't stare at the small profits in front of you. And I offended the mentor and ended up dying a miserable death.
@崛強小強
Finding the right direction of research is more important than blind effort. I am the ultimate perfectionist, but also an extremely stubborn person, do not hit the south wall and do not turn back. When I started my doctorate, I always carried out my own research under the stubborn struggle with the supervisor, and as a result, I studied for two years before I found that it was a dead end, I regretted that I did not listen to the words of the supervisor, and as a result, I wasted two years in vain, and I had to change the research direction, and it was inevitable to complete the research direction, so it is more important to find the right research direction than to work hard.
Don't do self-righteous research in the direction you think, listen to the advice of your mentor, and don't hang yourself from a tree.
@ Buddhist old Li Bo
From pretentious to accepting the ordinary. Gradually accept their own ordinariness, and slowly learn to reconcile with their own hearts. Maybe we have been excellent in junior high school, high school or even undergraduate, but sometimes grades really don't represent scientific research ability. When you study for a doctorate, you will gradually discover the existence of various gods. Accept the reality that there is a gap between yourself and others, don't blindly compare yourself with others, don't see what others send and what paperwork is on your heart to beat yourself "look at others, look at yourself", absolutely don't do this, then you will have a very painful life. Be sure to see if you are making progress, and whether you are creating results little by little at your own pace.
@ Little sister who likes to be angry
Don't get angry with people who don't understand you. After studying for a doctorate, most of the undergraduate students around you should graduate and work, and you are still free in time, so your undergraduate classmates will feel how free you are in school, how good, even including your parents, so they do not understand your suffering, you talk to them, they can hardly get your point, at this time, you will feel that no one in the world can understand you, this time you will feel that you and the people around you are on two parallel lines, there is no intersection, so they do not understand you is also normal. It is enough to be angry and hurt your body, and it is enough to understand yourself.
Finally, I would like to say that no matter how the world gets better or worse, it doesn't matter whether it's painful or unhappy to study for a PhD. Since we can't change the world, nor can we change the reality of doctoral study, what we have to do is to change ourselves to adapt to the world, to adapt to the requirements of doctoral study, sometimes utilitarian is not bad, indicating that you have a goal and direction.
The purpose of studying for a PhD is to avoid leaving regrets and pains, and I think the key is to do two things well:
First, plan your future, where is the future of the doctorate, where is the direction of graduation and employment, only by knowing what you want can you know how to do it;
The second is that the body is 1, all things are 0, no matter how busy you are studying, you must insist on exercise, the body is the capital of the revolution, you cannot read a doctorate at the expense of health, otherwise everything will return to zero.
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